Exposing the hypocrisy of journalists

[Gorton_Tubster]

These reporters only started reporting shit about City since 2016 (2015 if it was sterling). It's stark how they turned on us from then.

But what's surprising is a few of those very same reporters started reporting positively on LFC from the same time.

 

[bobmcfc]

Another shithouse

He didn’t last long

 

[Buzz BluE]

I think it is down to the City press office to mobilize the masses and certainly they should have identified those with the tools to do the job ie Rabin and organized and supported them, but so far have just taken everything thrown at them

City are very unlikely to orchestrate that.

It’s the owners MO to maintain a dignified profile and play the long game.

I may be wrong here but,unless our media savvy, knowledgeable & articulate fan base organise a structure of response (al la Rabin ), we’ll continue to be picked off and assassinated by the click baiters and haters in the ( paid for ) rag & NeverPool media.

I only wish I knew enough to be able to organise it but I’m certain there are those on here who can.

 

[MCFCGMGB]

These reporters only started reporting shit about City since 2016 (2015 if it was sterling). It's stark how they turned on us from then.

But what's surprising is a few of those very same reporters started reporting positively on LFC from the same time.

It was more like the 2nd /3rd week after the takeover back in 2008... That's when the pennies started to drop amongst the media... The tone changed in the written media and especially the tone in the voices on TV and radio.. just couldn't hide the resentment and still can't.

 

[homerdog]

Cwe’ll continue to be picked off and assassinated by the click baiters and haters in the ( paid for ) rag & NeverPool media.

I'm all for telling these tossers where to go, and simple abuse is just as effective as intelligent criticism. After all, have you seen how many people actually like or retweet any of their posts? It's bugger all, so none of us should actually care, or think that they have any effect on the negative portrayal of our club. That's the domain of the mainstream media and that's who we should be concerned about.

 

[Barcon]

I don't think so mate.

Apart from the fact it's impossible, it would be like herding cats, these hacks are already accusing our owners of weaponising the fan base, I can't think of a better way of proving them right, than the club actually weaponising the fan base.

 

[Buzz BluE]

The response to the social media assassins should be the same as to the print and broadcast media.

Targeted,strategic,fact based, unemotional, challenging and dogged !!

Do NOT let them off the hook, straighten their lies and distortions with the truth based facts. Go Mano Mano on them. Haunt the feckers with relentless,remorseless factual responses.

Beleaguer them till their eyes and ears are bleeding. Make them regret that they had ever heard of the word City.

And do it selectively, intelligently, and unemotionally until the rats are squealing for mercy.

 

[Metalartin]

I don't normally visit Ragcafe but this came up in my search results, it's a response to the trollerball article from a supposed City fan. Everyone is entitled to an opinion but this has to be a parody account. Otherwise I find their level of sycophancy utterly cringe worthy for most of that post.

Jul 24, 2019 at 10:04 #41
robinamicrowave
Wanted to be bran, ended up being littlefinger
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We're owned by dickheads and I honestly think some of our fans would thank the club for a slap on the face as they entered the stadium. "Wow, just a slap on the face to watch this team? Count me in!" The lengths some of them go to in order to defend the club makes me sad really. As much as I think it's unfair for journalists, not just McGeehan, to lump us in with the criticisms of our ownership, I think some of our fans are unwilling to apply critical thought to who our owners really are, and how they're currently part of something sinister going on at the very top of the game. The guy who decides the prices of our season tickets, Ferran Soriano, drives through one of the poorest areas in the country when he makes his visits to the Etihad, but the prices have increased by nearly 100% since we first won the league back in 2012.

There's a serious disconnect between who our fans are and who our owners think should be in the Etihad. The "Emptihad" stuff is vastly overstated but we don't sell out home games for that reason. We've never been a major international brand like United, and arguably we still aren't. We've always relied on local people for support, or being everybody's second favourite, but when the people local to our stadium are dirt poor and can't afford to pick up a habit like football, we're doing the opposite of helping them inside by trying to become such a massive brand. I don't think we're unique in this regard because most of the top teams in Europe have had to feck people over to get where they are, but it wouldn't sting so much if so many of our fans didn't take the "I'm alright, Jack" attitude - both with regards to season ticket pricing and the (ahem) "dealings" of our owners.

The responsibility isn't on the fans to oust the Sheikh from the club. That's impossible. But if they could just put tribalism to the side for a second then we might be able to have a reasonable discussion with these journalists. As far as I'm concerned the likes of Delaney and McGeehan are only bothered because it generates a lot of traffic for their sites, but Rabin isn't a paid investigator acting on behalf of ADUG. He's just a weirdo with a Twitter account and a lot of time on his hands. But now Rabin's doing to Delaney, et al, what they were doing to him - in the end they're just normal blokes working for a newspaper. At worst, they're hypocrites, they're not being to spread propaganda either. He was pretty funny at first but he's turned it into such a big deal - at least in the circles we all move in - that it's become impossible to have a discussion about any of it. I hope it all blows over soon because it's gotten pretty boring now.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

I don't normally visit Ragcafe but this came up in my search results, it's a response to the trollerball article from a supposed City fan. Everyone is entitled to an opinion but this has to be a parody account. Otherwise I find their level of sycophancy utterly cringe worthy for most of that post.

Bollocks that's a blue.

 

[willipp]

I don't normally visit Ragcafe but this came up in my search results, it's a response to the trollerball article from a supposed City fan. Everyone is entitled to an opinion but this has to be a parody account. Otherwise I find their level of sycophancy utterly cringe worthy for most of that post.

No real City fan would post that on there. If they did they are an attention seeking closet rag who deserves no part in our success.